Rogawski ET, et al. - Given that, enteropathogen infections in early childhood not only cause diarrhoea but contribute to poor growth, authors evaluated whether or not particular enteropathogens were associated with linear growth across seven low-resource settings. Findings suggested a substantial negative association of subclinical infection and quantity of pathogens, particularly Shigella, enteroaggregative E coli, Campylobacter, and Giardia, with linear growth, which was sustained during the first 2 years of life, and in some cases, to 5 years. Global stunting might be reduced by the successful reduction of exposure to certain pathogens.